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When Ron headed upstairs, he didn’t feel tired at all. He was pumped after the hard day’s work on dueling. Having nothing better to do, Ron lied down and tried to go to sleep. But as soon as he was ready to, he heard a knock on the door.
He jumped up and walked to the door, he opened and was surprised to see that Hermione was standing there.
“Ron, I couldn’t sleep … and I was thinking that maybe we could … just talk” She walked into the room and sat on his bed.
Ron sat next to her. “So what’s on your mind?”
“Well, it just I was thinking about how much danger we’re going to be in, probably are in, and you know, how we don’t know how long we have together.” She inched closer to him.
“Yeah… these times coming up, they’re going to be tough, who knows what kind of chance we have.” He moved closer as well.
“Ron, there’s something I’ve been wanting to tell you for a long time.”
“Yeah?”
“See the thing is I’ve always kind of …” Hermione stopped talking as a loud cracking sound had just occurred downstairs.
“What was that?”
“I hope it wasn’t what I thought it was.”
“Did you hear an apperating noise too, because I really hope you didn’t.” They both drew their wands and stepped out of the room. As they started walking down the stairs, they started to creak. They stood still, hoping that whoever was downstairs hadn’t heard the noise. Hermione said a nonverbal spell, and then continued to walk. The stairs did not creak this time, and Ron couldn’t help but be impressed in Hermione’s quick thinking.
They reached the bottom of the stairs, and saw a light on in the kitchen. They split up and went to either entrance into the kitchen. Ron was the first to jump in and as he nonverbally casted stupefy, he saw that one of two intruders in the kitchen was hit and had fallen to the floor.
Hermione barged in through the other door and instantly casted some spell that blew the other intruder backwards into a wall. Both Ron and Hermione walked into the room and realized with a start that the two intruders were no other than Fred and George.
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